What do you call it when photos have this kind of sun effect?

im referring to the different coloured circles on the lower left part of this photo:





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What do you call it when photos have this kind of sun effect?
In photography, this is called lens flare. It is caused when light enters the lens at such an angle that it doesn't focus properly on the film.





However, this appears to be a computer-generated image. Photographic lens flare is generally not this defined in shape.





~Liz


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Reply:i believe it's called glare.
Reply:Circle of confusion
Reply:they are just circles someone has added to the picture to imitate "lens flare"..........sure you can do it in photoshop somehow





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Reply:The effect is called flare and it isn't a photograph, it's a computer generated image (CGI). They are not even remotely the same thing.
Reply:lense flare
Reply:They are reflections inside the lens, sometimes call aberrations.
Reply:It's either glare or refractrion, I'd say I'm more confident in refraction myself.
Reply:i like to use that lighting when i do my pictures in photoshop, it is found under..





photoshop:


-filters


-render


-lighting effects














hope that helps.
Reply:Those are called 'lens flares' and these are artificially generated. This is an odd pic, because back in 1992or 1993 I made a model of exactly the same satellite when we were working on a project for NASA called EOS, the Earth Observing System. The only thing was my model was much better than this one.
Reply:flare

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